Komiko Yakamura: Stories

Crown Princess Park Eun Bae had eight steps left to walk before lightning changed everything. Three centuries later she lands in a Seoul hotel pool wearing fifty pounds of soaking silk — and walks straight onto the set of Korea's hottest historical drama. She knows how to be a princess. She has no idea what to do with forty million viewers. Or the chaebol who built her a country. Or the actor who found her in a 1747 archive and has been looking ever since. Some love stories survive time itse

Wyoming, 1878. When schoolteacher Angela Parker boards a stagecoach to meet a stranger who placed a notice in a Philadelphia newspaper, she carries two things: a satchel and a hidden return ticket. She never planned to stay. He never planned to beg. But Coulter Brooks doesn't want a captive — he wants a partner. And two weeks on the Wyoming frontier, under wide skies and honest stars, has a way of changing what a woman thinks she wants. A choice freely made. And kept.

She came to him the way wild things do — slowly, carefully, leaving gifts he didn't yet understand. For weeks, Michael found tokens at the edge of his orchard: a bronze feather, smooth stones, berries arranged like offerings. He assumed it was nothing. He was wrong. Missy had been watching the man who cared for broken things. She had kits on the way and winter closing in, and she had chosen him. Now she just had to trust him enough to knock.

When her tribe's water rights die with a rancher, Alachooshe Lame Bull rides onto Branson land on a carefully engineered errand — charm the new owner into a fair deal. David Branson is expecting her. Neither expects what happens next. Set against the Montana landscape where Crow land and ranch land share the same water, The Honey Trap is a story about two straight dealers who came at each other sideways and couldn't maintain the angle.

Komiko Tanaka is four-foot-eleven, fourteen years old, and the quietest force of nature Jefferson High has ever seen. When copper-haired foster kid Katie McDonnell drops into the seat beside her and announces they're friends, neither girl knows what they're walking into. What follows is a story of damage and healing, dominance and surrender, chosen family and the love that builds it — one careful deliberate step at a time. Some people are exactly who they were always meant to be. They just need

Combat medic Vance Riker only wanted to save the wounded Valtharian princess bleeding out in a crashed dropship. He didn't plan to trigger an irreversible genetic bonding. Or get her pregnant with quadruplets. Or accidentally start peace negotiations that would end a twelve-year war. Now he's married to alien royalty, director of an interspecies breeding program, and committed to fathering twenty hybrid children. His mother-in-law is a eight-foot warrior empress. His sister-in-law hunts human ma

Boston-educated Ellie Mae Brennan answers a rancher's ad out of desperation, traveling two thousand miles to marry a stranger. When she arrives in Montana Territory, Elias McKinney gets more than he bargained for—a tiny, beautiful Black woman who's never touched a plow but can read a ledger like nobody's business. She discovers he's three months from losing everything to a crooked banker. Her terms: marry immediately, make her equal partner, then she'll save their ranch. What begins as a busines

304 AD. Roman princess Valeria is kidnapped as a toddler by a Chinese spy—but instead of delivering her to chaos, he raises her as his own. Trained in three cultures, three languages, and the art of playing empires against each other, Valeria builds an impossible kingdom in the Hindu Kush mountains. Negotiating with Constantine, taming a cocky Gupta prince, and transforming kidnapping into power, she carves out a piece of life entirely her own.